as the app ID by passing the `--name=thunderbird` argument when starting Thunderbird via Debian's wrapper script. This makes the app icon show up as expected when run as a native Wayland client on KDE Plasma.
Attached is an updated patch that as compared to the previous version removes setting StartupWMClass to "thunderbird" instead of "thunderbird-desktop". It turns out that the WM_CLASS is still "thunderbird-desktop" and only the app ID is changed to "thunderbird" when starting Thunderbird with the `--name=thunderbird` arg.
I noticed that now when explicitly testing with GDK_BACKEND=x11 in a GNOME Wayland session. I previously had only tested that the correct icon is shown when run as a native Wayland client in both Plasma and GNOME.
Sorry for the confusion. Regards, Michael
From 4cf1bbfe76099fff3acfa9fdbdc33c0baf6aff76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Weghorn <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 21:47:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Use app ID that matches the desktop file name In the Thunderbird shell wrapper script, pass the `--app-name=thunderbird` argument to the executable when starting Thunderbird in order to explicitly set the app ID to "thunderbird", instead of using (the default of) "thunderbird-default". The use of "thunderbird-default" resulted in a generic Wayland icon being displayed on KDE Plasma Wayland (e.g. in the task switcher) instead of the Thunderbird icon when Thunderbird is run as a native Wayland client (e.g. forced by "GDK_BACKEND=wayland`) as described in Debian bug 1022037 [1], because the app ID set for the window didn't match the name of the desktop file (/usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop). Thanks to reddit user Apoema who mentions the possibility to set the app ID this way in [2]. Users can still explicitly override the app ID by starting Thunderbird using the wrapper with `thunderbird --name=something-else`, as the last argument wins in case the `--name` argument is passed multiple times. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1022037 [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/w0sk3m/comment/ighcl6p/ Closes: #1022037 --- debian/thunderbird-wrapper.sh | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/thunderbird-wrapper.sh b/debian/thunderbird-wrapper.sh index b3f7c2e7b73..a03713b64e9 100755 --- a/debian/thunderbird-wrapper.sh +++ b/debian/thunderbird-wrapper.sh @@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ export MOZ_APP_LAUNCHER # let Thunderbird detect the system dictionaries export DICPATH=/usr/share/hunspell -declare -a TB_ARGS=() +# use app ID that matches the desktop file name +declare -a TB_ARGS=(--name=thunderbird) for ARG in "$@"; do case "${ARG}" in -- 2.43.0
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